A description of how adults and parents can awake the fascination, love and interest for nature in kids and how mindfulness and sustainability can be A description of how adults and parents can awake the fascination, love and interest for nature in kids and how mindfulness and sustainability can be taught to the smallest that will grow to the decision-makers of the future.
As I like to say, this is a positive example of "Give them to us when they are young and they belong to us forever." and what lies closer, what is more logical, natural and self-explaining than to go outside in the wilderness and just be, examine, walk, hike, wander and absorb all those impressions, smells and unique panoramas and settings. Go, in contrast, in anything manmade, clinical, cold and empty and there is nothing, just the space filled with inanimate objects.
The research of the future will show how strong and important the environments we used to live in since just a few hundred years ago were for our health and how the lack of nature around us influences our mind, body, soul and evolution, what senses we lose and which one we might get. For kids, who are much more sensitive and openminded and live in the ever bigger and faster-growing cities, it might have consequences we don´t even consider yet. We already know much about the general health benefits and the ones for recovering patients, but nothing about the long term health and mental effects of a lack of nature, besides allergies and a much higher rate of psychological problems in cities.
Greening cities, new city planning concepts that include vast amounts of trees and bushes to fight overheating, air pollution and other consequences of climate change, is a great step in the right direction. Could be combined with including animals in those areas and an infrastructure and net of more conservation areas, national parks and city parks so that nature doesn´t have to stay an abstract something one has to drive hours to for a short visit or a holiday, but something omnipresent referring to the fact that we came from there and are nothing without out.
And it hasn´t to be focused just on kids, nobody is too old to learn to love the planet and each individuum whose mind has been opened is a strengthening of the civil society that has to promote a change to an eco-social focus in all regards.
One person alone can achieve anything if there is a dedicated public behind it.
It´s inspiring to see what a human with a vision has achieved on his owOne person alone can achieve anything if there is a dedicated public behind it.
It´s inspiring to see what a human with a vision has achieved on his own, because the book has changed the behavior of one of the most influential, one could also use other adjectives, governments of the world. Although only in the short term and partly, but at least a beginning until corporate environmentalism and greenwashing came and ruined everything again.
More than half a century after its publication, politics and the economy are still downplaying poisoning the environment, the sixth extinction, and general background extinction with dubious and unscientific arguments and ideas. For example that, without toxic sprays, the erosion would wash away the topsoil as in for example... and so on. They design lists and concepts that assign economic values of benefit to natural spaces and the forms of life they contain and in this way, it´s determined which animals cease and which ones get a place in the ark, zoo, or genetic manipulated breeding program to get more meat out of it in shorter time.
Too small areas are designated as nature reserves and if not the stress is what kills the animals, the incest certainly does. There are still many similar howlers and bigoted blossoms in the environmental policies and the recommendations of ministries of agriculture, often with the same interests and goals as in the ministries of economics all around the world. At least not a collision of interests so that the state can keep destroying, aka working, effectively.
A person's initiative is an indictment for those who say they can´t do anything. They say that one vote wouldn´t be worth anything in an election or getting active in NGOs would be just a frustrating waste of time and in earlier times, the refutations may have been correct on several points. The media were even more monopolized and the reporting heavily censored. Also, people were so conservative that it was easy to help them get massive personal and professional problems by violating opportunism if they got too progressive. The opportunity to network with other like-minded people was sparse, but in the 21st century, these justifications are obsolete and a cheap vindication.
Today, social media and the global cooperation of NGOs and civic movements can, has, and will achieve much more. That there is still a long way to go is another matter altogether and it´s far too easy and one-sided to blame the adolescents and young adults for not engaging in activism. Many never get in closer contact with the subject because of their big city or suburbian environment, are brainwashed by traditional media, and therefore can´t form an unindoctrinated, enlightened consciousness. The fact that they are deprived of deliberately hidden opportunities to engage is society's fault, or let's point the finger at it and call it the astonishing achievement of the cooptation of all social and general media, that just don´t touch these touchy topics with a ten foot pole in blind obedience to their corporate, advertising, overlords.
Instead, the raised index finger should be wielded in the direction of the teachers and parents, with a special focus on comparing the environmentally conscious, engaging parents with the shopaholic and indifferent legal guardians, and the bigoted do gooders that keep benefiting from the system while practicing token fake activism to whitewash their cognitive bias dissonance overkill, the tragic picture is fully revealed. The children imitate this behavior, sometimes even during puberty if they´re well trained don´t see, hear, speak monkeys, I don´t know if indifference or pseudo patching superficial problems while the cores of the problem stay unnamed, is more insane and bipolar.
The classic, stereotypical problem is that one doesn´t believe what one doesn´t see because the visible parts of pollution and environmental degradation have been widely exported to developing countries and poor or uninhabited areas of industrialized, rich countries and there, the companies don´t even have to bother to conceal or simulate waste separation. One can dump any waste anywhere, exporting it is big business.
When there are talks about pollution, environmental issues, background extinction, etc. in wealthy industrialized countries, the positive achievements of recent decades are overemphasized, such as that it has become an important economic factor to prevent environmental damage and that it´s cheaper to take precautions than to repair the massive damage. That's splendid bigotry, as less economical harmful natural destruction and long-term consequences are ignored.
Corporations often manage to shirk legal claims by bankruptcies of a subsidiary before paying financial penalties and reparations but sadly, as the focus of public attention has become stronger, it´s increasingly difficult. On the other hand, if the illegal landfill is in a faraway country, it doesn´t directly affect people at home. In combination with lack of coverage the perfect mix for total silence, as media don´t ever report about it.
The idea of environmental protection should not be limited to a furry animal or one's own country, but expanded the consciousness that everything is part of a single, interlinked cycle, that it´s one planet, not separate and independent worlds on each continent or even country, which also kind of satirizes the practice of using globalization to generate profits for some while others get the toxic waste and deserted, dead nature.
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